Monthly Film Bulletin 1936. All the films reviewed in 1936.
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1. The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
93 min | Adventure
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown ... See full summary »
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elissa Landi, Gordon Harker, Basil Sydney
Votes: 81
2. With Pleasure, Madame (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
It is the height of the fashionable season and the world-famous singer, Anita Stella, comes to Cannes on the Riviera, where she has been engaged to perform at a Charity Ball sponsored by ... See full summary »
Directors: Victor Hanbury, John Stafford | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Marta Labarr, Lu Ann Meredith, Fred Conyngham
Votes: 12
3. Mother, Don't Rush Me (1936)
70 min | Comedy
An anti-gambling supporter has a secret passion for the greyhound racetrack..
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Robb Wilton, Muriel Aked, Clay Keyes, Frank Tully
4. The Improper Duchess (1936)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Harry Hughes | Stars: Yvonne Arnaud, Hugh Wakefield, Wilfrid Caithness, Arthur Finn
5. Jury's Evidence (1936)
74 min | Crime, Drama
A jury sitting on a case are led by their foreman through an imaginative survey of how the crime, a murder, was committed.
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Hartley Power, Margaret Lockwood, Nora Swinburne, Sebastian Shaw
Votes: 13
6. King of the Damned (1935)
Approved | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An educated convict and prisoner leads a group of other inmates in a rebellion against the cruel authority figures before one of their own gets executed.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Helen Vinson, Noah Beery, Cecil Ramage
Votes: 92
7. Crimson Dynasty (1935)
96 min | Drama, History
Vignerte, a preceptor at the court of a German principality, falls in love with Princess Aurore, whose first husband died under mysterious circumstances. Vignerte suspects the deceased's brother to be responsible for the death.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Elissa Landi, John Lodge, Antonin Artaud
Votes: 75
8. Backstage (1937)
80 min | Drama, Musical
A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom. Musical. Initial release: June 25, 1937
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy, Jane Winton, Ellis Jeffreys
Votes: 33
9. Stars on Parade (1936)
81 min | Musical
1936. Musical. This 1936 Musical film shows a rare chance to see some of the greatest acts from the Music Hall Years. Starring Sam Barton, Mabel Constanduros, Horace Goldin and many more.
Directors: Oswald Mitchell, Challis Sanderson | Stars: The Act Superb, Raymond Baird, Sam Barton, Mabel Constanduros
Votes: 33
10. Sunshine Ahead (1936)
64 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Wallace Orton | Stars: Eddie Pola, Betty Astell, Leslie Perrins, Eve Lister
11. Ticket of Leave (1936)
69 min | Crime
A young crook meets a lady in the same business as himself, and finds she is more than a match for him.
Director: Michael Hankinson | Stars: Dorothy Boyd, John Clements, George Merritt, Max Kirby
12. Twice Branded (1936)
72 min | Drama, Crime
A young businessman (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his jailbird father is determined to save him.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Robert Rendel, Lucille Lisle, James Mason, Eve Gray
Votes: 42
13. The Vandergilt Diamond Mystery (1936)
60 min | Comedy
Director: Randall Faye | Stars: Betty Astell, Bruce Seton, Hilary Pritchard, Charles Paton
14. A Wife or Two (1936)
63 min | Comedy
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Henry Kendall, Nancy Burne, Betty Astell, Fred Duprez
15. Strike Me Lucky (1934)
87 min | Comedy
Director: Ken G. Hall | Stars: Roy Rene, Yvonne Banvard, Lorraine Smith, John D'Arcy
Votes: 18
16. Thoroughbred (II) (1936)
64 min | Comedy
An out-of-work reporter wins a horse in a dice game. The horse turns out to be a champion runner. His girlfriend helps him get the horse into professional racing, but they get mixed up with gamblers.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Toby Wing, Kenne Duncan, Wheeler Oakman, Romeo Gaskins
Votes: 19
17. Undercover Men (1934)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Western
For showing cowardice during a holdup, bank teller Bob Hunter is fired. He joins the Mounties and is assigned to look for those robbers. To have him work undercover, the Inspector's scheme ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Charles Starrett, Adrienne Dore, Kenne Duncan, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 74
18. Annie Oakley (1935)
Passed | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Western
A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen
Votes: 1,897
19. The Bride Comes Home (1935)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Robert Young, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 260
20. Charlie Chan's Secret (1935)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery
The heir to a huge fortune is presumed drowned, then shows up, is then murdered.
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley, Henrietta Crosman
Votes: 1,756
21. The Eagle's Brood (1935)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: William Boyd, James Ellison, William Farnum, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 256
22. Forced Landing (1935)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
A jetliner is forced to land in a remote region of Arizona under suspicious circumstances.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Esther Ralston, Onslow Stevens, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing
Votes: 25
23. The Great Impersonation (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Romance
Baron Leopold von Ragastein impersonates his noble lookalike Sir Everard Dominey at the vast Dominey Hall, where strange things are afoot in pre-WW1 England.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson, Wera Engels, Murray Kinnell
Votes: 93
24. I Dream Too Much (1935)
Passed | 97 min | Musical, Romance
Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and ... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 634
25. It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
While hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Richard Dix, Fay Wray, Victor Kilian, Charles Arnt
Votes: 703
26. East of Java (1935)
72 min | Drama
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Young, Frank Albertson, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 39
27. King of Burlesque (1936)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie
Votes: 230
28. Last of the Pagans (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Romance, Drama
A young Polynesian couple is separated by a mining company which enslaves islanders.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Mala, Lotus Long, Rudolph Anders, Chester Gan
Votes: 209
29. The Littlest Rebel (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley
Votes: 1,678
30. The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want him honor the tradition of returning to the tables.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Colin Clive, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 281
31. Melody Trail (1935)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, Wade Boteler
Votes: 127
32. Millions in the Air (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy
The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: John Howard, Wendy Barrie, Willie Howard, George Barbier
Votes: 19
33. Paddy O'Day (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Paddy O'Day is an Irish immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth, Jane Darwell
Votes: 281
34. Racing Luck (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a high-stakes race. Trying to clear his name,... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Barbara Worth, George Ernest, Esther Muir
Votes: 47
35. Rawhide Mail (1934)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he knows who to look for.
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Jack Perrin, Nelson McDowell, Chris-Pin Martin, Lillian Gilmore
Votes: 28
36. The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Donald Cook, Berton Churchill, Frank Sheridan
Votes: 326
37. $1000 a Minute (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 198
38. When a Man's a Man (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Western
A man who has spent all his inheritance, finds meaning in life, and love, at ranch where his ingenuity is put to good use.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: George O'Brien, Dorothy Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry Woods
Votes: 104
39. Frisco Waterfront (1935)
66 min | Drama
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from ... See full summary »
Directors: Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley | Stars: Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque, Russell Hopton
Votes: 32
40. Whipsaw (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
Hoping to nab a gang of jewel thieves, a government agent poses as a crook and travels across the country with a female thief.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan
Votes: 930
41. Sans famille (1934)
114 min | Drama
A little boy is sold to a busker who takes him on all the roads of the France with his troupe of animals.
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Vanni Marcoux, Dorville, Robert Lynen, Madeleine Guitty
Votes: 37
42. Deuxième bureau (1935)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.
Director: Pierre Billon | Stars: Jean Murat, Véra Korène, Pierre Alcover, Henry Bonvallet
43. The Growing Youth (1933)
115 min | Drama
Emotional upheavals transpire when three girls enter a boys' school, to study for an important exam: a teacher and a student both fall in love with one of them.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinrich George, Peter Voß, Hertha Thiele, Marieluise Claudius
Votes: 20
44. The Great Consoler (1933)
95 min | Drama
In basis of film are facts from biography of the American writer O. Henry and two his short stories.
Director: Lev Kuleshov | Stars: Konstantin Khokhlov, Ivan Novoseltsev, Vasili Kovrigin, Andrey Fayt
Votes: 200
45. Excuse My Glove (1936)
75 min | Comedy, Sport
A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
Director: Redd Davis | Stars: Len Harvey, Archie Pitt, Betty Ann Davies, Olive Blakeney
46. The First Offence (1936)
66 min | Drama
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: John Mills, Lilli Palmer, Bernard Nedell, Michel André
Votes: 48
47. Jack of All Trades (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
Jack Warrender (Jack Hulbert) bluffs his way into big business in order to promote his new invention.
Directors: Jack Hulbert, Robert Stevenson | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Gina Malo, Robertson Hare, Mary Jerrold
Votes: 85
48. King of the Castle (1936)
69 min | Comedy
Director: Redd Davis | Stars: June Clyde, Claude Dampier, Billy Milton, Cynthia Stock
49. On Top of the World (1936)
78 min | Comedy
Director: Redd Davis | Stars: Betty Fields, Frank Pettingell, Leslie Bradley, Ben Field
50. The Secret Voice (1936)
68 min | Thriller
Director: George Pearson | Stars: John Stuart, Diana Beaumont, John Kevan, Henry Victor
51. Things to Come (1936)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Votes: 9,076
52. A Touch of the Moon (1936)
67 min | Comedy
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: John Garrick, Dorothy Boyd, Joyce Bland, David Horne
53. What the Puppy Said (1936)
40 min | Family, Short
Director: Widgey R. Newman | Stars: Wally Patch, Vera Sherborne, Joe Hayman, Margaret Yarde
54. When Knights Were Bold (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, Garry Marsh, Kate Cutler
Votes: 50
55. Vasant Bengali (1930)
86 min
Director: Pessi Karani | Stars: Ermeline, Zaverbhai Kaiser, Jal Merchant, Zillu
56. Ah Wilderness! (1935)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden
Votes: 881
57. Anything Goes (1936)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles, Ida Lupino
Votes: 521
58. Broadway Hostess (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A woman becomes a successful singer, but can't do as well in love.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Wini Shaw, Genevieve Tobin, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 422
59. The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)
Approved | 67 min | Drama
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Richard Arlen, Charlotte Wynters, Douglass Dumbrille, Mary Kornman
Votes: 33
60. Captain Blood (1935)
Passed | 119 min | Action, Adventure, History
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 16,101 | Gross: $2.96M
61. Escape from Devil's Island (1935)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance
Johanna Harrington waits eagerly at her cottage on the edge of the jungle that flanks the Devil's Island penal colony for the arrival of her father Steve Garrington, her sweetheart Dario, ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Victor Jory, Florence Rice, Norman Foster, Stanley Andrews
Votes: 27
62. Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama
In this touching tale, an elderly British woman saves up enough money to visit her son in the U.S. She believes that he is doing well, but he is actually a prisoner in San Quentin.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Alison Skipworth, Mae Clarke, Arthur Treacher, James Ellison
Votes: 133
63. Exclusive Story (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
Exclusive Story is a 1936 American drama film directed by George B. Seitz and written by Michael Fessier. The film stars Franchot Tone, Madge Evans, Stuart Erwin, Joseph Calleia, Robert Barrat and J. Farrell MacDonald.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Franchot Tone, Madge Evans, Stuart Erwin, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 194
64. Her Master's Voice (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
A man (Edward Everett Horton) is forced to pose as a handyman for his wife (Peggy Conklin) and mother-in-law's rich aunt (Laura Hope Crews).
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Peggy Conklin, Laura Hope Crews, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 38
65. The Invisible Ray (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton
Votes: 3,031
66. Kind Lady (1935)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Henry, a homeless artist, is invited in from the cold by Mary. Her kindness is exploited as Henry, his family and friends manipulate their way into living in her home. Mary tries to get rid of them, but they have their own scheme in mind.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle, Frank Albertson
Votes: 652
67. Lady of Secrets (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Otto Kruger, Lionel Atwill, Marian Marsh
Votes: 77
68. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,613 | Gross: $0.16M
69. Nevada (1935)
Approved | 58 min | Western
Jim Lacey (Buster Crabbe),better known as "Nevada,", and his pal Cash Burridge (Syd Saylor), a pair of Nevada wanderers on the run from a sheriff who thinks they have committed some lawless... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Kathleen Burke, Syd Saylor, Monte Blue
Votes: 26
70. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Votes: 34,774 | Gross: $2.54M
71. Professional Soldier (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Drama
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart, Constance Collier
Votes: 220
72. Rhythm on the River (1940)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Levant
Votes: 416
73. Riffraff (1935)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie and quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 1,109
74. Rose of the Rancho (1936)
Approved | 85 min | Western
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the ... See full summary »
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: John Boles, Gladys Swarthout, Charles Bickford, Grace Bradley
Votes: 46
75. Song of the Saddle (1936)
Approved | 58 min | Western
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Dick Foran, Alma Lloyd, Charles Middleton, Addison Richards
Votes: 170
76. Strike Me Pink (1936)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers, Harry Einstein
Votes: 496
77. To Beat the Band (1935)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Musical
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Helen Broderick, Roger Pryor, Fred Keating
Votes: 79
78. Tough Guy (1936)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.
Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Joseph Calleia, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Harvey Stephens
Votes: 236
79. Two in the Dark (1936)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick
Votes: 307
80. Western Courage (1935)
61 min | Drama, Western
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to ... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Ken Maynard, Geneva Mitchell, Charles K. French, Betty Blythe
Votes: 19
81. Die ewige Maske (1935)
74 min | Drama, Horror
Expressionistic devices depict the nervous breakdown of a young physician whose patient has died,on whom he had tried out a new serum contrary to his superior's orders.
Director: Werner Hochbaum | Stars: Peter Petersen, Mathias Wieman, Olga Tschechowa, Thekla Ahrens
Votes: 37
82. Collegiate (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Joe Penner, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks, Frances Langford
Votes: 41
83. The Mystery of Carlo Cavelli (1934)
90 min | Drama
A former Austrian officer, dismissed from the army for killing his friend in a duel, returns to Vienna with much mystery, sporting a black mask.The dead man's sister falls for him while her father,a general, swears vengeance.
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Angela Salloker, Hans Homma, Camilla Gerzhofer
Votes: 23
84. The Brown Wallet (1936)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A bankrupt publisher thinks all his troubles are over when he stumbles across a Brown Wallet containing 200 pounds. But he is implicated in the murder of his wealthy aunt ...
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Patric Knowles, Nancy O'Neil, Henry Caine, Henrietta Watson
Votes: 49
85. Viennese Love Song (1936)
78 min | Musical
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Jean Muir, Gene Gerrard, Hans Söhnker, Chili Bouchier
86. Fame (1936)
68 min | Comedy
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Sydney Howard, Muriel Aked, Miki Hood, Brian Lawrance
Votes: 14
87. Gaol Break (1936)
64 min | Crime, Drama
When a convict discovers that his son is about to be kidnapped by his former gang members, he breaks out of jail to try to save him.
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Ralph Ince, Pat Fitzpatrick, Basil Gill, Raymond Lovell
88. Happy Days Revue (1936)
87 min | Drama, Musical
Two sisters form a double-act after the retirement of their parents.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Renee Houston, Billie Houston, Shirley Houston, Harry Milton
89. Hot News (1936)
77 min | Comedy
Director: W.P. Kellino | Stars: Lupino Lane, Phyllis Clare, Wallace Lupino, Barbara Kilner
90. The Howard Case (1936)
62 min
Directors: Fraser Foulsham, Frank Richardson | Stars: Jack Livesey, Olive Melville, Arthur Seaton, Olive Sloane
91. King of Hearts (1936)
82 min
Directors: Oswald Mitchell, Walter Tennyson | Stars: Will Fyffe, Gwenllian Gill, Richard Dolman, Amy Veness
92. Living Dangerously (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Doctor Stanley Norton finds his partner, Doctor Henry Pryor, has been illegally selling drugs to addicts, he dissolves the partnership. Seeking revenge, Pryor accuses Norton of ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Otto Kruger, Leonora Corbett, Francis Lister, Aileen Marson
Votes: 26
93. Once in a Million (1936)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
A bank clerk accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend.
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Mary Brian, W.H. Berry, Clay Keyes
Votes: 23
94. Pal O'Mine (1936)
41 min | Short, Musical
Director: Widgey R. Newman | Stars: Herbert Langley, Stan Paskin, Charles Paton, Arthur Gomez
95. Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)
78 min | Comedy, Musical
A young man goes to work as a waiter in a French hotel.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Frances Day, Arthur Riscoe, Muriel Aked, Claude Dampier
Votes: 36
96. Rhodes (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Biography
This rousing adventure film tells the true story of Cecil Rhodes, a diamond miner who helped found the South African colonies.
Directors: Berthold Viertel, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Walter Huston, Oscar Homolka, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier
Votes: 223
97. Strange Cargo (1936)
68 min | Crime, Drama
Crooks in South America smuggle arms on an English cargo vessel to revolutionaries, but are exposed by a young girl, who later marries the captain's son.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Kathleen Kelly, George Mozart, Moore Marriott, George Sanders
Votes: 12
98. Under Proof (1936)
50 min | Comedy
Director: Roland Gillett | Stars: Betty Stockfeld, Tyrell Davis, Judy Kelly, Guy Middleton
99. Wrath of Jealousy (1936)
68 min | Drama, Romance
Directors: Alex Bryce, Campbell Gullan | Stars: Fay Compton, Patric Knowles, Barbara Greene, Alastair Sim
100. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
76 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister
Votes: 1,451
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